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Quitting: How To Know When To Walk Away & Why Some People Love Conspiracy Theories

Something You Should Know

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The Decision to Stick or Quit

Mike Downey: One of the problems that we have is decision makers, whether it's this decision to start something or the decision to stop it, it's made under uncertainty. He says when you are facing that decision, you're also not going to have all the facts. And so what that makes us do is stick to things too long because we want to know there's no other choice but to walk away. But if we quit when it's actually right, we're quitting in the sort of cloud of uncertainty that we're just really uncomfortable with.

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